While walking around Hawkins Preserve in Cortez on a recent morning, I happened upon an insect that is letting itself be seen more this time of year. I managed to carefully scoop her (or him) up in my ...

The last two years have been kind to the insect population in north Florida, and 2015 appears to be continuing the trend. The weather has provided enough rain for those bugs which depend on the ...

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What would you get if you crossed a wasp and a mantis? And no, this isn’t MCU fan fiction. The very real animal kingdom has just such a creature, called a mantisfly. But it is neither praying mantis ...

I was startled. A praying mantis materialized in the flowers, inches from my hand. I was watering with a hose, and the big bug made its way gingerly up a nearby fence to escape the water. I was ...

Hold that pose! These famous insects are more than meets the eye. Delve into these fun facts about the praying mantis.

Being neither mantids nor flies, the peculiar mantis-flies are in fact predatory lacewings which use their mantis-like forelegs to catch prey. While most mantis-flies are known to feed on spider eggs ...

Praying mantises were pretty common in Bingham County this year, but every time I saw one, I was reminded of a campy science fiction movie about earth-based soldiers fighting giant insects on a ...

Godzilla vs. Mothra and now mantis vs. fly! Remembering some of the sci-fi horror movies involving a giant insect, a praying mantis may come to mind, and a fear factor is born. However, a praying ...

'Praying Mantis' is another blue-chip production from the master workshop of award-winning filmmaker Kurt Muendl. Programmes like 'An Everyday Monster' about the house fly, 'Shadow hunters' about ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When it comes to state insects, most states honor beloved and benign bugs, like butterflies, honey bees and ladybugs. Connecticut has designated a voracious predator as its ...